Prunella cretensis

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Prunella cretensis
Systematics
Family : Mint family (Lamiaceae)
Subfamily : Nepetoideae
Tribe : Mentheae
Sub tribus : Nepetinae
Genre : Brown cells ( Prunella )
Type : Prunella cretensis
Scientific name
Prunella cretensis
Gand.

Prunella cretensis is a species of the genus Braunellen ( Prunella ).

features

Prunella cretensis is a perennial, prostrate stem hemicryptophyte whose flower shoots reach lengths of 5 to 10 centimeters. The edges of the stems and the leaves have sparse, white, adjacent hairs. The upper leaves have a lanceolate outline and are pinnately lobed to pinnate.

The three six-flowered false whorls are pressed into a spherical false ear. The upper lip of the calyx is rounded and not toothed, slightly lobed, or more rarely three-toothed, with the posterior teeth shorter than the central tooth and more or less blunt. The lower lip is half divided into two parallel awl teeth. The crown is barely twice as long as the calyx and a little smaller than that of the little brown cell . The upper lip is whitish with pink nerves or completely pink, the lower lip is greenish white.

The flowering period extends from May to August.

Occurrence

Prunella cretensis is endemic in the central areas of the mountains of Crete . The species grows in montane, grazed Phrygana on clay soils at altitudes of 500 to 1600 meters.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e John Fielding, Nicholas J. Turland: Flowers of Crete . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Kew 2005, ISBN 1-84246-079-X , pp. 260-261 . (Text and images)
  2. ↑ a b c Michel Gandoger: Plantes nouvelles pour l'île de Crète. In: Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France. Volume 62, pp. 151-157. online - initial description
  3. ↑ a b c d Ralf Jahn, Peter Schönfelder: Excursion flora for Crete . With contributions by Alfred Mayer and Martin Scheuerer. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 1995, ISBN 3-8001-3478-0 .
  4. ↑ Michel Gandoger: Flora Cretica . A. Hermann et fil., Paris 1916, p. 78 Online (altitude of the Angarathe monastery)
  5. ^ Bernhard R. Egli: Ecology of the sinkholes in the mountains of Crete (Greece) . Dissertation Zurich 1993, 275 pp.

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